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    #31
    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    I think you mean Nineteen Eighty-Four. To quote Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death: "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who would want to read one." The people of Brave New World were so fully occupied with ephemeral pleasures like the drug soma, and mass entertainment like the feelies, that speech was free; for no one in their society would ever think of anything worth saying.
    I often wonder what it would be like if meat grew on trees and we had to kill vegetables before consumption. And if so would Megans & Meatarians be still annoying?
    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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      #32
      Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
      Is st ok to post in this thread in two hours time if I am very very drunk?
      It's nice to have you back

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        #33
        Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
        Who ever said we had free speech?
        We certainly like reminding the Germans about the war; however, we seemed to have learned the least from it.
        "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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          #34
          Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
          It's nice to have you back
          Oh you say that now.

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            #35
            Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
            We certainly like reminding the Germans about the war; however, we seemed to have learned the least from it.
            Do we? I would consider it an unforgivable impertinence.

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              #36
              Boris Johnson: The EU wants a superstate, just as Hitler did


              http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...as-hitler-did/
              "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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                #37
                Originally posted by zeitghost
                I wonder why no one mentions the Corsican dwarf?
                It's unfair to pick on those who are vertically challenged.

                Also didn't the Roman Empire last a while before it imploded?
                "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                  #38
                  Was it the Beckhams?

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                    #39
                    Originally posted by zeitghost
                    And what did the Romans ever do for us?

                    Apart from building that very useful wall, of course.
                    Does Trump know about them?
                    …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                      #40
                      Originally posted by zeitghost
                      And what did the Romans ever do for us?

                      Apart from building that very useful wall, of course.
                      Shame he did not build one on the way to Wales.

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